Microbial community of high arsenic groundwater in agricultural irrigation area of Hetao Plain, Inner Mongolia

Microbial communities can play important role in arsenic release in groundwater aquifers. To investigate the microbial communities in high arsenic groundwater aquifers in agricultural irrigation area, 17 groundwater samples with different arsenic concentrations were collected along the agricultural...

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Main Authors: Yanhong Wang, Ping Li, Zhou Jiang, Aki Sinkkonen, Shi Wang, Jin Tu, Dazhun Wei, Hailiang Dong, Yanxin Wang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-12-01
Series:Frontiers in Microbiology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fmicb.2016.01917/full